Sentence examples for poor odds of from inspiring English sources

Powerful lobbies, beginning with the National Rifle Association, will fight every legislative provision; some of these provisions, like a proposed ban on assault weapons, appear to have poor odds of passage by this Congress.

President Shimon Peres, in an interview with the newspaper Maariv, summed up the sense of wonder that has driven Israel's belief in itself, describing the poor odds of the Zionist militia against the Arab world in 1948.

But Mr. McCluskey, the Cato analyst, said Mr. Obama misses the system's fundamental flaw: that federal aid and loans are often awarded to mediocre students and schools, with poor odds of producing economically successful graduates.

And of the 24 incumbents who are not running for re-election — because of term limits, poor odds of winning or something else entirely — the political parties are evenly split.

How do universities continue to attract students into graduate programs despite poor odds of attaining the careers they desire?

Sloppy sex with poor odds of finishing ensues.

But will a course like this, more broadly deployed, be useful to the many other postdocs with less flashy resumes and poorer odds of becoming faculty members running labs of their own?

CEO Jason Trost is out to effectively attack bookmakers and other exchanges which he says give consumers a rough deal because of poor odds and commissions.

For taxpayers seeking the earned-income credit, which benefits the working poor, the odds of an audit last year were about 1 in 47, based on the number who sought the credit in 2000, not 1 in 315.

Among the Indian urban population a secondary analysis of National and Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS 3) data comparing urban poor with non-poor population showed higher utilization amongst the urban non-poor (the odds of ANC being 1.48, medical assistance in delivery 2.16 and use of modern contraceptives 1.34 times higher in urban non-poor) [ 6].

In adjusted models, respondents in the poorest and least poor quintiles had similar odds of reporting poor QoL while those in the second quintile had higher odds of poor QoL.